Abstract
Love in marriage is presented by different scientific disciplines as a foundation of married life. Although theology and psychology reveal similar meaning of love, they are different approaches for both scientific disciplines. The sources of love constitute the key difference. Theology points to God as the source of love, while psychology sees love as a relationship between spouses.
For theology, conjugal love is the foundation of the sacramental relationship, it is the basic and innate vocation of every human person – realized in marriage, leads to the sanctity of the spouses. Psychology, on the other hand, recognizes spousal love as a requirement for improving the quality and stability of the relationship between a man and a woman.
The article evaluates marital love from the perspective of both scientific disciplines in the lives of holy spouses: Luigi and Maria Quattrocchi, and also Louis and Zelie Martin.
The two parts of the article successively present theological and psychological understanding of love. While the third part of the article introduces examples of love in marriage in the life of both couples. Statements from marital and family correspondence form a real conversation between family members conducted for private, domestic reasons. The source texts of an autobiographical character confirm the presence of marital love in the lives of both couples in its theological and psychological understanding.